The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) and Asterion are providing specialized devices that monitor the presence of visible artificial light at night, as they rollout their new ‘Light Monitor Grant Program’.
TWAS awardee, Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, is working to ensure that poor villagers in remote parts of Africa have their say in conservation measures that affect their lives.
The GYA’s ‘Importance of fundamental research’ working group has launched its report titled “Back to basics: researcher’s perception on the global state of funding for fundamental research”.
At the TWAS 16th General Conference, high-level speakers described how basic science has been indispensable in their own countries, and why support for it must be strong to achieve the Global Goals by 2030.
Through a partnership established in the early days of TWAS, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has become a steadfast supporter of the Academy’s activities.
The Global Young Academy (GYA) is happy to welcome the Rwanda Young Academy of Science to the family of Young Academies, the world over.
ICTP has signed an agreement with the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS) to strengthen their collaboration and support of basic and computational science in South Africa.
Considerations of equity in directing global financial flows for regional climate mitigation investments are critically important.
![TWAS-Lenovo Science Award winner Fu Bojie, left, taking part in ecological restoration field work in the Loess Plateau of China in 2022. [Photo provided]](https://www.iybssd2022.org/wp-content/uploads/web_field_work_about_ecological_restoration_in_loess_plateau_of_china_in_2022-1-675x351.jpg "TWAS-Lenovo Science Award winner Fu Bojie, left, taking part in ecological restoration field work in the Loess Plateau of China in 2022. [Photo provided]")
2022 TWAS-Lenovo Science Award winner, Fu Bojie, has not only helped China determine how to improve lives while preserving nature, but has provided sustainability strategies that every nation can use.
A new paper published by Alessandro Ingrosso, a senior postdoctoral fellow in ICTP’s Quantitative Life Sciences section, and SISSA researcher Sebastian Goldt, has addressed the way in which neural networks learn.
